All papers are from the Bloom
and Grow collection by Simple Stories. And they are SO beautiful!

I decided to put the balloon and dog on a tag in the
centre of the rays.

I stamped onto white card and coloured just the basket
and cut the entire image out. Then I
stamped the balloon part of the stamp again onto patterned paper and cut it out
and glued it on top.

Paper piecing the balloon like this made it much quicker
and easier than colouring it. I could
have also cut out each balloon segment in a different colour but I just thought
that might be a bit too much on this card.

I glued it to the tag and then adhered
the dog on top. And because I was putting this onto a white base, I didn’t have
to bother with the trickier cutting of the balloon that I did on my previous
card.

I lightly sponged around the tag with the distress ink
and stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment which is also from the Up In The Air
set.

I hope you’ve liked seeing this technique and that you’ll
give it a try too.

So I wanted to use these two together and create an
interesting sky for the balloon to float around in.

I decided to create a sun ray background with patterned
papers (AKA the Sunburst or Starburst technique).

Here is how I created my card so that you can
try it out for yourself :)

This technique can be wonderful for using up scraps of
patterned paper you have in your stash.
You can use all different lengths, widths and designs and make them work. But I actually cut mine from 2 new sheets of
paper and cut them all the same size :)

When using this technique you need to firstly decide
where you want the “rays” to radiate from.
I decided to put my sun in the top right hand corner of the card, so all
the points of my rays start there.

I also decided to leave a space between my rays, but
you can vary the look of the background by butting them together instead.

·I white embossed the cute sentiment from
the Up In The Air set onto a piece of American
Crafts – Key Lime Card. I used the hill piece from the die
to cut it out and trimmed it down to fit.
Then I inked the edge of it and attached it to the bottom of the card.

·There are trees with the die too, but I
decided to colour the trees from the stamp set and cut them out and attached
them to the hill.

I didn’t get the matching outline die with this stamp
so I thought I would show you how I cut out the balloon too. (I guess this is
just for people like me who don’t like to cut images out with a knife.)

Maybe you noticed something a bit wrong with this
photo? Were you wondering why a dog has suddenly appeared?

Well I had my card all laid out just how I wanted it
ready to be glued down when my daughter came in. So I asked her what she thought of the card
and she said “I really love it but there is one thing that would have made it perfect”.

So I had to ask …. “What?” And she said ……

“The CAT”!

So I just had to colour up the cat and swap that puppy
out of there so that my card would be perfect! :)

The dog is very cute too though and I will be back here
on the blog later this week to show you how I used him on another card. I hope you’ll come back to see. :) And
in the meantime, please check out all the wonderful MFT
goodies at Anna’s Craft Cupboard.

Friday, June 2, 2017

I wanted to make a Birthday Card for a little girl who's turning 5 very soon.
And I thought a fairy card would be perfect.
I used this stamp and I actually got a bit of shock when I read what it was called
because I assumed she was a fairy!
This is Roberto's Rascals Cutie Butterfly from CC Designs.
Anyway whatever she is, she is super cute :)

I stamped her twice. On the first image, I put glue all over the wings and sprinkled fine glitter on them and left them to dry while I coloured the other image.

I used copics to colour the second image and cut her out, minus the wings, and then stuck her on top of the glittered wings.
I left her hand "free" so that I could put the twine under it as though she were holding the string.
Then I cut her out again so that she could fly on the cloudy background I created.
I used distress inks and splashed on a bit of water and a few drops of white paint too.

I cut a number 5 using the CC Designs Jumbo Numbers Die and covered it with glue and the same glitter to match her wings.